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Old January 11, 2018   #5
carolyn137
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I don't go by the number of weeks,since too many variables involved in that for me.

I go by the size (height) of the seedlings and have always set out seedlings that are about 4-6 inches tall.

The smaller the seedling the quicker it adapts to outside conditions IMO, well not just my opinion since there are others who do the same thing.

Others here in several threads in the past have compared seedlings set out early with those set out a bit later due to weather,and they have found no difference in which ones give the first fruits since the ones set out earlier almost always catch up.

No way will I set out plants that already have blossoms if I can help it, so there's that as well. And when weather demands that they are set out horizontally,not vertically.

And there are those who have compared seedlings of the same size and variety, that is, two identical plants,one where the blossoms have been taken off ,the other one blossoms left on.

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